2 put on 3-day remand over Khijir Khan murder

A Dhaka court on Thursday placed two people on a three-day remand each in a case filed in connection with the murder of ex-PDB chairman Khijir Khan, reports UNB news agency.
Those who remanded are Tarequl alias Mithu, an active member of banned militant outfit Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB), and Alek Bepary, driver of the vehicle used by the killers of Khijir Khan during the killing mission.
Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate M Rashed Talukdar passed the order after inspector M Azizur Rahman of Detective Branch (DB) of police of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) produced them before the court seeking a 10-day remand for each.
A team of DB police picked up Tarequl from Tangail while Alek Bepary from Mirpur area of the capital in separate drives.
Two cameras and two laptops, presumably stolen, were also recovered from Tarequl.
On October 5, miscreants slaughtered former chairman of Power Development Board (PDB) Khijir Khan, 66, also a so-called pir, at his Khanka Sharif (gathering place of followers) at Gudaraghat in the city’s Madhya Badda area.